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: aesaBBSSsaaasaaassssasiBeaaseasa LjWorlds I T3,Around I By lynn M. Walklni The Medical Roundup MedfordBTribune by Sensational! Buy of the Year! SKC'l'lON B MKUKORI), OIIKGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1H0 PAGES 1 to 8 Emirltua rnmuiunl in Mtdlflnt. Mhjo Clll.lt EmorHui finmut of MsditUM. Haya ClUtla It wuii a lucky afternoon; wo found it black hour; wo wiilched him tenrlriK oimrl un Did log thiil evidently con tallied a mimhi'i- of Iiiiku, UlucK uuciies. I h hear seem od til enjoy them iiIuiik Willi noma other Insects that ho found. Wo couldn't tell miyoiiu f our discovery (or II the won liul around, acinic "bruva' iiuntor would have linmcdl ately surrounded himself with itroup of other "bruvc" hum us und allot the poor hear to (leiilh. The black hour lum mr vlvcd, In ii A i it it 1 1 way, In tula lii'iiiuy wilderness called tho i.'veitfliKles only becuuse the animal la u little anuuler thai most ot those that would kill him. lie muni live by his own renin reoa mid cleverness In kecpuiK complutely out ol the way. hvon the law that pro tocls moat iinhuala olfura him Jlllle coualdcrution; he la con sidered a predator and la usu ally hunted down. Fw Ltd 'I heir numhera In the hi it swamps lire lew, but an occa alonil one la atlll to be found and the one we were watch Inn, in adult male, aecmed to he utterly oblivious to the fact that he win being ob served. Here In the ureal southern awamp the black bear doca not urow loo large; n 200-pound one la conaldered large while a few hundred nillea to tho north they imiy reach a weight of 400 pounda. Tho black bear la probably the most playful of any wild animal and at the aumo time ccms to be the moil human nd underataudlng. In captivi ty they are, with the poaalble exception of aome of the monkeys, tho moat popular of all zoo Inmulea. Their clever ncsa In learning trlcka and their general tractablllty and playful disposition have com bined to make them an In valuable feature of any me nagerie. During the greater part of each year the black bear, ei ther male or female, lives alone. Actually they are tree climbing anlinala and will climb a tree at the flrat algu of danger, depending on height and isolation to save them from their enemies. And tho only acrious enemy they liuvo la man, wno, of course, lias very little chance of catch ing them without the aid of tracking dogs. PidB Favored - The black bear eats gieai variety of f o o d a. Berries, roots, honey, vegetables, small animals, Insects, eggs, and at times, an occasional pig when one can be found. Being par ticularly fond of raw pork is one of the reason! why Uruln la so despised by some Stock raisers. Contrary to what you may have heard, and In spite of the probability that you knotv a man who had a friend who know another man who was attacked by a black bear, It la atlll mostly a "tall tale." Glasses Genuine CUT GLASS Start your set TODAY! One Piece with every minimum purchase at these Signal BIO "Y" SIGNAL SERVICE ; 2054 Pacific Highway LEWALSEN'S SIGNAL SERVICE Crater Lake Hwy. & Shady Cove WELCH'S SIGNAL SERVICE 3000 Crater Lake Hwy. mr M M m LV --Jdl Xi an (aaaak m MB? T. aWaVal mw I a, J W AM. m : I ROCKY MOBBED (iuv. Nelson A. Rocke feller wua mnhhed as he arrived in Chicago Monday, a week before start of the 001" convention. Ho la shown being greeted by supporters holding "Draft Rockefeller" tings Report Minimizes Hazards of Fallout Washington fllPD - The De fense Department, which dis likes tho government s atom ic test ban, has prepared a report minlniuing radluliini hazards of fallotil from nu clear explosions conducted by the United Sidles, iirllaln and Russia through 11)58. Maumado nuclear debris Is minor, the department im plied, cumpurcd with natural radiation that always has ex isted. U2's Did Research U2 airplanes like the one downed In Russia May 1 did tho main rcseurch for the 25U- pugc report during a three year high altitude sampling program throughout the west ern hemisphere. Prepared by the Pentagon's Defense Atomic Support agen cy, the report put it on record officially that the U2 has an operating altitude of 70. QUO feet. Its flight endurance Is T,1 hours and Its cruising speed about 500 miles an hour, v . , vi . The air sampling flights of the U2 - using quite different equipment from the spy mla slons over Russia - were de signed to find out how nuclear fallout circulates In the strat osphere and how hazardous It potentially might be. The conclusion said the con- The black bear does not at tack anyone, anytime, unless It is wounded, provoked be yond endurance or when its cubs are molested. We were sure that bear we were watch ing weighed 200 pounds be cause we caught him and then weighed him. We allowed him to go frcea disgusted but n much wiser bear. (Releasod by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) Stations i 1 SNOWY BUTTE SIGNAL SERVICE 5010 Crater Lake Hwy. THOMPSON'S SIGNAL SERVICE 1501 North Riverside trlhutlon to total radiation of fallout from weapons tests is "quite low." "All Inhumation thus far accumulated indicates that fallout constitutes a hazard to the h u m a n population which population which Is small compared to the hazard from natural radiation," Un report said. The total radiation does to h u m a n reproductive tissue from fallout through 1982 would amount to .05 roent gen compared with 3 roent gens from natural radiation, it said. "In other words, nuclear weapons testing will increase the genetically important, ra diation background by no more than 2 per cent," the report said. Murder Trial Set Sept; 7 in Salem Salem-HJPD-The first degree murder trial of James Bird Borden, 35-year-old mental pa tient, wos set Tuesday by Cir cuit Judge George Duncan for Sept. 7. The Judge rejected a re quest by the Marion county district attorney for a sanity hearing. Borden Is charged In the July 9 slaying of Mrs. Maxine Spratt, 38. He admitted stangling her after she tried to break off an engagement with him, police said. Borden Is back in custody of tho slate hospital. He had been on parole from the hos pital when the slaying occurred. something NEW for YOU O HI fs And remombsr Signal gasolinna nre the finest you onn buy. So you pity no more for the boat gaaolinoa and Bt the name time have the opportunity to fill all your needs in beautiful gineswarel Go Farther at OOP headquarters in the Conrad Hilton hotel, lie held a press conference Monday In which he once again said he would nut he a candidate for the party's vice presi dential nomination. (UPI Tclepholo) Phoenix Club Sets Work Parly Tonight Phuenix - The Phoenix Community club will have a work party starting about 7 o'clock tonight, floor construc tion chairman J. D. Lubbers has announced. Purpose will he to complete laying of a new hardwood floor which is now iwo-thirds done, he said. Two more work nights should finish It, he said. "We hope lo get it finished tills week so we can slart on plans for fall activities," he explained. "We will want some type of floor-warming party as soon as the floor is done. We also hope to have another lnll festival." Lubbers and Floyd Work man have been working on week ends to complete t h e floor. The Phoenix Lions club donated a day to the project. The Phoenix firemen and oth er community organizations will be asked lo contact their members for the project. The community club board of governors plans to use the building for a teen-age recre ation program during winter and fall months, in addition to square dancing and other activities for adults. The com munity club meetings, held the third Monday of every month, are open to all resi dents in Phoenix interested in community club activities. ACTRESS WINS AWARD San Sebastian, Spain njPD Amcrican movie star Joanne Woodward was awarded the San Sebastian Cinema Festi val's Grand Prix Tuesday for the best feminine perform ance. Miss Woodward's award was for her role in "The Fu gitive Kind," with Anna Mag nani and Marlon Brando. CLARK'S SIGNAL SERVICE 6th and Grape MEDFORD TRUCK TERMINAL 1050 South Riverside HARTWELL'S SIGNAL SERVICE 340 E. Main-Ashland A Duodanal Diverticulum As 1 have said many limes before in this column - and must say aguln-we physicians tend to get into habits as we make our diagnoses, en- pec i a lly in puzzling cases, Every day wc sec women who arc a I ways ailing and complain- UK AI.VAKI!' ul " B"a that. Some are physically frail; some are easily upset nervously; some arc mildly depressed, perhaps like their mother who once was in a mental hospital; many - poor souls - are sadly overworked, like the widow I Just saw who types in an office all day and then comes home to get din ner for a sick husband and three children. Others are mainly unhappy like the woman whose husband is drinking, or gambling, or chasing skirts. Often, when a conscientious physician sees a woman like this, he feels so slumped and so helpless. What on earth can he do to be really helpful, and really to tackle the problems of frailness, unhappiness, over work, and lack of money? Perhaps he is swamped with overwork himself, and is tired out. How he'd like to clear out his reception-room and go home to his favorite chair, his pipe and his newspaper! But after he leaves the office he may have to make rounds in the hospital, and then make a few house - calls, which means that he'll come home around 11:30, too tired to eat or lo rest. Is it any wonder thai a man In that situation somelimes takes the easy and quick way out. Instead of spending an hour trying really to grapple with the sickly woman's prob lems, he says, "Look at this little diaphragmatic hernia, or look at this (slightly) low blood sugar, or this slightly low blood count, or look at these diverticula (tiny out pouchings) on your large bow el, or look at this ptosis llow position of the stomach and bowel) or look at this diverti culum on your: duodenum (the duodenum is the 'first 12 inches of the . small bowel next io the "outlet ol the stomach). By doing this sort of tiling, the doctor can dismiss the woman in 10 minutes and then go on to his next patient. What, to me, is curious is that the fashion in such diagnoses changes just as does the fashion In women s clothes. For instance: a few years ago, for six months I kept getting hundreds of letters asking about a low blood pressure; then no one asked about that, but hundreds asked how they were to cure a low blood sugar. Last year hundreds asked about divcrticulosis of the colon, and right now dozens are asking about di verticula of the duodenum, and should they have theirs cut out. Actually, I have been see ing diverticula of the duo denum for 47 years. Only once In that time did I see one so big that I thought it might be causing the woman's dis tresses. A surgeon look it out and she was no whit better. Then I learned that she had concealed from me her story of great unhappiness and frus tration over a love affair, and I was much ashamed. During my 25 years at the Mayo Clinic I cannot remember ever seeing another patient oper ated on for a diverticulum of the duodenum. I see no reason why such a' congenital ob normality should produce symptoms. I am pretty sure that these little out-pouchings In a few men and women arc a "throw-back" to certain fish in which the duodenum al ways Is surrounded by one or two dozen diverticula. One of the kindest things that a physician can do for a tired-out, or highly nervous or mildly psychotic woman is not to mention the harmless little congenital peculiarities which show up during her examination, and which mean nothing. To mention them can only cause anxiety and per haps can lead to the perform ance of a needless operation. Dr. Alvarez's booklet on ulcers may be obtained by sending 25 cents and a large, stamped, self - addressed en velope with your request to NT WITH Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, The Register and Tribune Syndicate, Box 957, Dcs Moines 4, Iowa. A "Joint Mouse" A woman writes to say that her children are vastly amused because the doctor says she has a "joint mouse" in her knee. She wants to know what such a mouse is like, and how It got into her knee. She evidently has a joint mouse, all right, because sometimes her knee will, for a moment, get locked straight, or suddenly, as when dancing, she will feel a sickening pain In the knee and will fall to the floor. What happened probably was that she got a type of arthritis in the knee in whirh a sort of gasket (like the I runner pad that goes between the two ends of a big pipe where it is boiled together) enlarged and became fringe like on the edges. Then a piece of this fringe separated and became loose in the joint cavity. This is the "mouse." The treatment is lo operate and take it out . (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, I960) Wall Street Chatter New York-WD-The Interna tional Statistical bureau feels the Democratic platform and its candidates must definitely be construed as favoring the economy. The platform, it says, prom ises everything to everybody and is not deflationary. With Sen. Johnson as vice presi dential candidate, the bureau expects pressure for passage of some of the bills stimulat ing to the economy in a spe cial August session. It also points but that the Republican platform and its candidates may promise as much and in some areas more. The bureau says it's difficult to see how all these promises can fail to stimulate stock prices. The Fitch Survey believes that the shares of Spcrry Rand appear deserving of a higher price-earnings multiple than the current 18.5 figure. With the profit improvement ihat is anticipated, a construc tive approach to the stock at Its present levels seems justi fied, it says. Penick and Ford has built an interesting base formation during the past several weeks, according to Bache and Co. A close above 50 accompanied bv increased trading activity would make this issue attrac tive for short term trading accounts. Bache concludes. The bulk of advice from the major advisory services has a cautious tone and is not like ly to change materially in the next few weeks, according to R. E. Buchsbaum of W. E. Hut ton and Co. The probability that international crises and doubtful business prospects will continue should keep the market in the doldrums until the fall. Potland Woman Killed in Crash Hwaco, Wash. (UPII Mrs. Elizabeth Austin. 65. Port land, was killed Tuesday aft ernoon when the car in which she was riding missed a nirve and rolled over on U.S. Highway 101 north of llwaco. Driver of the car was Mrs. Austin's husband, R o s c o e Austin. fi8. Two sisters. Lydia Austin, 82, and Nona Austin, 72, were passengers, Austin was treated and re leased. 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